Reid, who has sharply criticized FBI Director James Comey for sitting on intelligence connecting Russian operatives and the Trump campaign, said he was unsure if Trump himself was aware of the activity. But he said people in Trump’s orbit certainly were.

“Someone in the Trump campaign organization was in on the deal. I have no doubt. Now, whether they told [Trump] or not, I don’t know. I assume they did. But there is no question about that,” Reid said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “So there is collusion there, clearly.”

“Don’t put blindfolds on,” he said. “Here is the deal: We have a situation where during the campaign, especially the last few months of the campaign, WikiLeaks was heavily involved in trying to hurt Hillary Clinton and it helped Trump. And you have Trump who said he likes Putin better than he likes Obama.”

You know considering that Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, has deep ties with Russia, I concur with Reid that it is VERY likely that Trump's campaign coordinated with Russia on these hacks and how they were released.

And it is not as if Russia's ties to the Trump campaign were exactly secret even months ago.

Obama then pointed to the Oct. 7 joint statement issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which said: “The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations.”

“Well, it’s not a rush. Keep in mind, when the DNC got hacked, we immediately assigned our intelligence community—our law enforcement—to investigate what had happened. And we determined—and announced—in October that it was the consensus of all the intelligence agencies in law enforcement that organizations affiliated with Russian intelligence were responsible for the hacking of the DNC materials that were being leaked. That was a month before the election. This was not a secret,” the president said.

“I will say this, though, Trevor: None of this should be a big surprise,” he continued. “This was reported on before the election. I don’t think there was any doubt among anybody in the media or among members of Congress as to who was being advantaged or disadvantaged by the political gossip that was being put out in drip-drip-drip fashion leading up to the election.”

Then POTUS took things one step further, drawing a line between President-elect Donald Trump’s team and the Russians.

“This was not a secret running up to the election!” exclaimed Obama. “The president-elect [Trump] in some of his political events specifically said to the Russians, ‘Hack Hillary’s emails so that we can finally find out what’s going on, and confirm our conspiracy theories.’ You had what was very clear relationships between members of the president-elect’s campaign team and Russians, and a professed shared view on a bunch of issues.”

And there you have it, in his own very careful way President Obama has essentially confirmed that the Russian government hacked American agencies and civilians in order to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump get elected.

He did not go as far as to openly accuse the Trump campaign of collusion with the Russians, but he left little doubt that such was the case.

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Fired Trump Adviser Tells Moscow Audience How Great Exxon CEO Would Be For RussiaCarter Page, kicked off the campaign because of his ties to Russia, says he’s “personally excited” about the likely secretary of State pick.

In 2011 Rick Perry Couldn’t Remember Energy Department’s Name – Now He’ll Head It

"Reading Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the existence of the Dept. of Energy, is Trump's pick to lead it. You can't make this crap up"

Yes, that’s right. Trump met with Perry yesterday at Trump Tower and it is unknown if it was Perry’s utter lack of intellect, his propensity to corruption, or his lying tongue that attracted Trump to him. Or all three.

Bottom line: the selection should come as no surprise as those are a trifecta of the qualities Trump looks for in cabinet level appointees. In a word, Perry’s got it all.

Last Days pastor Tom Horn told Jim Bakker about some unidentified “rabbis” and their view of Donald Trump, saying, “They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah. These “rabbis,” Horn relates, are saying that Trump’s name “actually means ‘messiah.’” In what language is anybody’s guess.

Horn also assured us that these mysterious “rabbis” are doing research to prove Trump’s “bloodline goes back to the Davidic dynasty.” In other words, a descendant of Mary, the mother of Jesus, or, worse, the family of Jesus himself (Luke 3:23-38).

Talk about looking for messiahs in all the wrong places…The more corrupt Donald Trump shows himself to be, the more certain the Religious Right becomes that he is the messiah. Not a messiah in the sense the word is more generally used, but in the sense that the word is used in Christianity.

Social Security advocates were shocked last week when Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) (pictured), the chair of the House subcommittee on Social Security, introduced a bill to little fanfare that would impose major cuts to the popular retirement insurance program.

Here are five points on the Johnson's bill, titled the Social Security Reform Act of 2016:

The proposal is a grab bag of ideas that Republicans have pushed to cut benefits in the past.

It leaves you wondering why Morning Joe would bother having guests on to talk about the inner workings of the Trump transition team when they can just tell us themselves from a first person standpoint. Their relationship with Trump, though MSNBC seems to want to ignore it, leaves the matter in no doubt.

The show has already been outed as the propaganda outlet it is, and it is past time MSBNC address the issue in an open and forthright manner or lose any remaining credibility as a news source.

Perhaps it’s time MSNBC just move the show over to Fox News where it belongs.

So, and what exactly will President Obama do?! NOTHING, as usual. He is too much still worried about what others think about him.THIS IS AN ACT OF WAR what Russia has done to our elections. They have openly interfered with our elections, have put in the puppet they wanted, and now they are telling him to put the worst people they can find in charge of each and every department. The people who know nothing about the departments themselves, but who are dumb enough to completely destroy it. EACH AND EVERY DEPARTMENT!!!

I get Obama needing time to figure out what move to make, but so much time was wasted that could have been spent on getting info out there and analyzed. We the people ended up not having info that we all should have had in deciding who to elect.

Last night my husband and I, former Catholics, were talking about how the way Trump voters act reminds us of nothing we've seen in our own lives but so much of the old biblical movies with their crowds clamoring for Pilate to release the murderer Barabbas and crucify Jesus instead. We don't think Hillary's Jesus, of course, but the way people act over Trump reminds us so much of the Barabbas story. I also couldn't help but then think of Obama as like Pilate in how he is acting as if his hands have been so tied and he's not been able to help, like Pilate said he couldn't do anything more to help Jesus. Love the pres, but certain drastic times call for drastic measures. There's been no getting through to human decency for eight years. Fine if Obama accepts that in terms of how he and his family are treated (I don't accept the treatment but in the end it's up to the Obamas what they will and will not tolerate in silence), but this election was not for him to decide by remaining silent until too late, and when he did say something it was so mildly suggested and ended up ignored.

The kremlin is very bad. Orange fatty better watch out. He will just rewrite contracts and stuff where orange fatty will have someone else written in as owners. There are many many young russians willing to do anything for the kremlin the money and power.

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